Nuance: Andrea Mitchell has no idea what the ideology of anyone working in NBC might be, but can spot a Republican “Katharine Harris type” from miles away. She’s afraid that the botched New Yorker Obama parody was actually “too sophisticated to actually be perceived the way it is intended” by the booboisies out there in Middle America. And then there was this attempt at cultural anthropology gone awry:
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MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell issued an on-air apology Monday following a remark last week in which she referred to an area of southwestern Virginia as “redneck, sort of bordering-on-Appalachia country.”
Which is why she’s probably filing a request for hazardous duty pay from NBC after this particular field assignment.
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